Establishment and Mission

The establishment of a “systematic civic-education program inspired by Christian Democratic values” began being considered in 1952 by a group of CDU politicians including Bundestag president Hermann Ehlers, Robert Tillmanns, and Heinrich Krone. On 20 December 1955 The Society for Christian Democratic Education Work, which would be renamed after ChancellorKonrad Adenauer in 1964, was opened in Bonn.

The aim of the foundation’s civic education programs is, according to their , the “promotion of freedom and liberty, peace, and justice” through “furthering European unification, improving transatlantic relations and deepening development cooperation.” Their...Read More